Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

Nicholas Sparks

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

Muhammad Ali

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

Mitchell Hurwitz

People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.

Oscar Wilde

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Oscar Wilde

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Madonna Ciccone

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

Lykke Li

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.

Luke Wilson

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Lucinda Williams

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it

Louis Kronenberger

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Louis L'Amour

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Lorraine Hansberry

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

Melanie Lynskey

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

Maria Bamford

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

Mark Hoppus

He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different producers and songwriters for the record, Patrick's name came up. We were excited to work with him - he's a very gifted lyricist and songwriter, and a really cool guy and it was a pleasure to work with him in the studio.

Mark Batterson

There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises.

Marguerite Duras

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

Mikhail Gorbachev

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

Naomi Campbell

I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.

Naomi Watts

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

Portia de Rossi

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

Pierre Schaeffer

I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

Nelson Mandela

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

Kristen Stewart

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

Kristen Stewart

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

Oscar Niemeyer

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

Oprah Winfrey

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

Olivia Wilde

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

Oliver Goldsmith

Error is always talkative.

Oliver Goldsmith

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

Margaret Atwood

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.